If you fancy something fishy, try this activity

Just 165 kilometres east of Seoul, visitors can try their hand at catching “bingeo”, or silver fish, at the 20th Inje Icefish Festival, held from January 26 to February 3.

In the mountainous town of Inje in South Korea’s Gangwon province, visitors can take part in the popular local activity of ice fishing on a frozen lake at one of 2,300 holes dug for fishing this year.

Just 165 kilometres east of Seoul, visitors can try their hand at catching “bingeo”, or silver fish, at the 20th Inje Icefish Festival, held from January 26 to February 3.

There, they can throw a line at two fishing grounds on a frozen lake that is 100 metres long and 70 metres wide.

Families can choose to stay at tents set up on a separate fishing ground that is equipped with 200 fishing holes.

Access to the outdoor fishing grounds is free, but visitors will be required to pay to fish at the grounds where tents are pitched.

Festival programmes will also offer education sessions catering to novice “bingeo” anglers as well as the opportunity for visitors to try their hand at a traditional way of catching fish, known as “Yeodeul Teolgi”.

To tempt the tummy, visitors can head to Korean-style taverns, which offer an assortment of Korean foods and alcoholic beverages, such as “makgeolli”, a Korean sparkling rice wine.